Teen Sex

July 27, 1986|By Charlie Jean

A JOHNS HOPKINS University study has found that one-fifth of inner-city Baltimore black girls who took part in a 28-month sex-education program became pregnant during that time. But about half of those not taking the program conceived. The researchers said in the Alan Guttmacher Institute's Family Planning Perspectives magazine that girls taught about sexuality lost their virginity at an average age of 16 years and two months. For those not in the program it was 15 years and seven months.